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Author interview: Q&A with Rachel O’Neill on Seduction: men, masculinity and mediated intimacy
No full textIn this author interview, we speak to Rachel O’Neill about her recent book, Seduction: Men, Masculinity and Mediated Intimacy, which offers an ethnographic study of the ‘seduction industry’. In the interview, she discusses the seduction industry as part of a continuum of mediated intimacy, the ways in which neoliberal rationalities are shaping masculine subjectivity today, how the book relates to contemporary discussions surrounding consent and women’s sexual agency and the particular challenges of undertaking this fieldwork. If you are interested in this interview, you can read a review of Seduction on LSE RB here. Q&A with Rachel O’Neill, author of Seduction: Men, Masculinity and Mediated Intimacy (Polity, 2018
Episode 3: Rachel Wightman, CSP Staff and Author
No full textIn this episode, CSP\u27s Associate Director of Instruction and Outreach, Rachel Wightman, shares about her new book, Faith and Fake News: A Guide to Consuming Information Wisely, including how she became interested in the topic, what led to the creation of this book, and why this topic is so important today
Rachel Swarns Book Event: The 272
No full textA conversation with Rachel Swarns, author of The GU272: The Families Who Were Enslaved And Sold To Build The American Catholic Church (Penguin Random House 2023). The conversation was moderated by Georgetown Professor Adam Rothman and hosted by Georgetown's Center for the Study of Slavery and Its Legacies
Theodore Clement Steele: A Lecture by Rachel Perry
No full textJoin author and curator Rachel Perry for a lecture on the life and artwork of Theodore Clement (TC) Steele. Perhaps the most well-known artist of the “Hoosier Group,” Steele created impressionist portraits and landscape paintings from his studio in Nashville, Indiana.https://scholarship.depauw.edu/peeler_event/1084/thumbnail.jp
Letter from Rachel Kawasaki to Dorothy Nakamura and Helen Nakamura Napoleon, July 21, 1991
No full textCorrespondence from Rachel Kawasaki to Dorothy Nakamura and Helen Nakamura Napoleon regarding information about Japanese American claims in the U.S. Court of Appeals.The Japanese American Archival Collection documents the people, places, and daily life of Japanese Americans, primarily those who lived in the once thriving community of pre-war Florin in the Sacramento region, as well as the conditions in American incarceration camps during World War II. The approximately 7,000 original items include personal and official letters, photographs, diaries, arts and crafts, newsletters, textiles, camps artifacts, yearbooks and other publications
Letter from Rachel Kawasaki to Dorothy Nakamura and Helen Nakamura Napoleon, July 8, 1991
No full textCorrespondence from Rachel Kawasaki to Dorothy Nakamura and Helen Nakamura Napoleon regarding research related to the redress and reparations movement.The Japanese American Archival Collection documents the people, places, and daily life of Japanese Americans, primarily those who lived in the once thriving community of pre-war Florin in the Sacramento region, as well as the conditions in American incarceration camps during World War II. The approximately 7,000 original items include personal and official letters, photographs, diaries, arts and crafts, newsletters, textiles, camps artifacts, yearbooks and other publications
Momentum transport by organised deep convection
Get PDF© 2016 Dr. Rachel Louise BadlanDeep convection is an important process that influences the vertical redistribution of heat, moisture, and momentum. Convective momentum transport (CMT) is composed of multiscale dynamical processes, including convective-scale CMT associated with updrafts and downdrafts, and mesoscale CMT associated with the quasi-steady circulation from organised systems. This multiscale nature of CMT is an active area of research especially regarding the influence of momentum transport on the mesoscale organisation of convective systems and vice-versa; these mesoscale processes and their associated CMT are the focus of this study.
Firstly, the CMT budgets of simulated idealised mesoscale convective systems are examined, and their sensitivity to horizontal resolution, domain size, and the boundary conditions, investigated. This is followed by an examination of a case study during the Tropical Warm Pool - International Cloud Experiment (TWP-ICE). The effect of horizontal resolution, time evolution, and cloud regime on the CMT were evaluated to determine the momentum profiles on both scales. These results are then compared to observational data derived from Doppler radar.
The idealised simulations reveal that for relatively large domains, horizontal gradient terms are still important, including the mesoscale pressure gradients; such terms are neglected in all CMT parameterisations. Like most convection parameterisations, current CMT parameterisations only represent convective-scale processes through relatively simple plume models. Thus, they do not properly represent the transports associated with organised systems, even though the tilted circulation associated with organised convection is a fundamental aspect of CMT. The horizontal pressure gradient and the sign of the momentum flux change sign as the system develops. Small domain calculations, which have become common for radiative-convective equilibrium experiments, are shown to suppress organisation through artificially large compensating subsidence and hence provide unrealistic representations of the processes involved. Finally, examination of the cross-updraft/downdraft pressure gradients demonstrates significant errors in their representation in current schemes.
The convective and mesoscale momentum transport profiles from the real cases reveal how these scales change at various stages of their evolution. Grid spacing 4 km does not capture the convective scale CMT and the coarsest resolution ( 30 km) produces the wrong sign of CMT. Mesoscale organisation is highly influential when evaluating the CMT, as these tilted circulations are responsible for much of the momentum transport. These findings indicate that rather than just parameterising the convective or small-scale dynamics, these schemes must take into account the larger, mesoscale processes.
The observational data reveals differences in the dynamical structures to those identified using the model data. Analysing momentum transport profiles identifies a downshear-tilted system, suggesting that the model is not representing the full diversity of systems that actually occur. Another simulation using a different microphysics scheme and analysis of the model's thermodynamics shows that both microphysics schemes create overly strong cold pools which preferentially generate upshear-tilted systems. The usefulness of this radar dataset has also allowed insights into the variety of systems and may be used to reproduce these systems in models
Rachel Franks, Double Agent: A Librarian and a Crime Author - William Blick Interviews Rachel Franks (January 2024)
Get PDFThe following is an interview from January 2024 with Librarian and Crime Scholar, Rachel Franks and was posted on the Captivating Criminality Blog:
Rachel Franks is the Coordinator, Scholarship at the State Library of New South Wales and an Honorary Associate Lecture at The University of Newcastle (Australia). She holds PhDs in Australian crime fiction (Central Queensland University) and in true crime texts (University of Sydney). A qualified educator and librarian, her extensive work on crime fiction, true crime, popular culture and information science has been presented at numerous conferences, as well as on radio and television. An award-winning writer, her research can be found in a wide variety of books, journals, magazines and online resources. She is the author of An Uncommon Hangman: The Life and Deaths of Robert ‘Nosey Bob’ Howard (2022)
Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge, Maine
No full textRachel Carson NWR, Wells, Maine: Named for the renowned author of Silent Spring and The Sea Around Us, Rachel Carson Refuge consists of a series of estuarine habitats along the southeastern coast of Maine. Here one will find salt marshes surrounded by
La primavera silenciosa de Rachel Carson
No full textThe author reflects on the importance and current relevance of Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring, an avant-garde work of environmentalism in the 1960s, based on the selection of two fragments, ‘The Obligation to Resist’ and ‘Elixirs of Death’El autor reflexiona sobre la importancia y actualidad del libro de Rachel Carson Primavera Silenciosa, obra vanguardista del ecologismo
en los años 60 del siglo XX, a partir de la selección de dos fragmentos, «La obligación de resistir» y «Elixires de muerte»
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